It was composed about 1623.

It seems almost certain that he was acquainted with the Christianopolis of Johann Valentin Andreae (1586-1654), which had appeared in Latin in 1614, and contained a plan for a scientific college to reform the civilised world.

Andreae, who was acquainted both with More and with Campanella, placed his ideal society in an island which he called Caphar Salama (the name of a village in Palestine).

Andreae's work had also a direct influence on the Nova Solyma of Samuel Gott (1648).

See the Introduction of F.E.Held to his edition of Christianopolis (1916).